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Turkish Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 2003 , Vol 49 , Num 5

Parsonage Turner Syndrome: Case Report

Meltem Esenyel 1 ,Sevgi Tetik 2 ,Zerrin Şahin 3 ,Nihal Özaras 4
1 SSK Vakıf Gureba Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi, Fiziksel Tıp ve Rehabilitasyon Kliniği, İstanbul
2 Vakıf Gureba Teaching Hospital, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, İstanbul
3 Haydarpaşa Numune Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi, Fizik Tedavi ve Rehabilitasyon Kliniği, İstanbul
4 Bezmialem Vakıf Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, Fiziksel Tıp ve Rehabilitasyon Anabilim Dalı, İstanbul, Türkiye

Parsonage-Turner syndrome is characterized by an ache begining in and around the shoulder, at the neck or at the base of the skull which gets increasingly more severe. Pain is followed by muscular weakness, sensory and reflex impairement. EMG is the most valuable method for the diagnosis. Therapy is usually symptomatic and recovery occurs within a few weeks to 2 years. Parsonage-Turner syndrome should be considered in the differential diagnosis of patients with a new-onset shoulder pain. Early recogninition of this condition  may prevent unnecessary surgical intervention and enables us to predict functional recovery.

 Keywords : Parsonage-Turner syndrome, winged scapulae, shoulder pai